Gas-producer.



. C. FINCK.

GAS PRODUCER.

APPLIUATION FILED DEU.. 31, 1906,

Patented ug-23, 1910.

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WITNESSES TTORNEY mais arras aruwrLLmE: CHRISTIAN FINCK, or EnrznBErH, NEW JERSEY, Assia-Non lro GEORGE BENJAMIN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

Application tiled-Decemberl, 1906. Seria1No.350,122. l

To all lwhom 'it may concern: I

.Be it known that I, WILLIAM- CHRISTIAN FINCK, a' citizen of the United States, re-

siding at Elizabeth, county -of Union, State,

of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useul im rovements m Gras-Producers,

of which the ollowing is a speciication.

semi-water gas or Dowsons gas, although the producer may be employed for the proings 10 an duction of ordinary producer gas containing a very much smaller proportion of hydrogen.

lThe object of my invention is to sim lify the construction of the producer and) increase its gas generating capacity.

The accompanying drawings nwill serve to Iillustrate my invention.

Figure lis a plan view looking from the Ytop ofthe producer, showing the'arrangement of the grate bars in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a vvertical section ltaken on the line Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line Y-Y of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings: 5 indicatesan.

inclosing shell for the body of the producer. The shell may be made of steel or iron, and be given any desirable shape.` In Fig. l the producerA is shown as a cylinder. Situated-within the inclosing shell is a second4 .shell or lining 6, and within it a refractory brick wall 7 The second lining 6 maybe omitted, and the refractory'wall or lining 7 may be formed of brick or it may be formed by building up a continuous lining of any.

refractory material. The body of the producer is carried on base portionwhich .con-- sists a casting 8,- having an' ash door 9. The castin 8 is also provided with bear- 12, and in the right hand side of uthe casting vthere is a pocket 13, to which "fis connected I a water pipe 14. y

The grate bars 12 are V-shaped in section and are hollow and perforated, as shown at l5, on' their three surfaces. The end s 16 of grate bars 12, where theyproject Ainto the' bearings 10, are also hollow, sfo that' the water which iiows by pipe 14 into the ocket 13 also Hows into the grate bars l2, to ge discharged through the `perforations 15. v

I do not limit myself to any particular shape for the grate bars. lThey may be tri-- 11 for-the rotatable grate bars` which may be found desirable, preferably rateatea Auges, icio.

angular inv section or have any other shape one which will act mechanically on the ash in the bottom of the producer whenrotated.`

Connected to the ends 17 of the grate bars i are-gears 18. These gears intermesh and are driven by the pulleyl9.. The pulley 19 may be operated by power or it-may be operated' by a hand-crank so that the grate bars may be manually'operated. Projecting into the blower 21. This blower, as is usual withproducers of this type, is of service in originally starting the producer, or where it is desired to force combustion in the producer, and can be shut of from pipe 20 by a valve 22. The body of the' producer is surmounted by a casting 23, having the usual charging orice 24 and hand operated pipe-v closure 25. Theright hand side of the casting 23 has an opening 26, which connects with a pipe 27 which, as is usual with producers of this type, is connected eitherto a gas engine', pump, or other pipe, which makes vsuction upon the producer, through which the gas produced in the producer is. conveyed 'from the producer.

28 represents fuel in the producer. y

base is the delivery pipe 20 of a hand The Opel'aOn 0f my device is as follows:- i

Assuming that the fuel in the producer has been ignited at the bottom in the usual way, water 'isintroduced "through the pipe let,4 ocket 13 -and grate bars 12. This water is 'scharged in two directions,-upward intov the fuel and` downward into the base. The heat, due to the combustion of the fuel, vap-` orizes this water and such vapor is decomosed in passing through the zone of comustion in the body of the producer into its elements-oxygen and hydrogen, the oXygen combining with lthe burning fuel to increase combustion, and the hydrogen uniting-with the carbon oxid to form a gaseous fuel.

Ait, will be observed that the' delivery pipe vfrbin the producer is situated at the highest Apoint in t e producer. This location is given to this pipe as experience has demonstrated that the exit from the producer should be free from obstruction, and, therefore, above the body of fuel in the producer.

- From time to time'the grate bars 12 are rotated,- the edect of which is to' carry down the ash and maintain the zone of combustion at a denite point slightly above the `top of the grate bars. i i 

